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Intellectual property rights in the cultivated meat industry: opportunities and challenges

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Cultivated meat faces escalating intellectual property (IP) issues as the industry expands, including conventional patent rights, the private IP rights of animal breeders and the Convention on Biological Diversity.

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This research was supported by grants (RS-2024-00332638, 22183MFDS368) from Republic of Korea Ministry of Food and Drug Safety in 2025.

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  1. Department of Food and Medical Products Regulatory Policy, Dongguk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Garam Baek & Yooheon Park

  2. Intellectual Property Department, Kim & Chang, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Sukhyun Chung

  3. APAC Society for Cellular Agriculture, Singapore, Singapore

    Peter Yu

  4. Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Dongguk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Yooheon Park

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Baek, G., Chung, S., Yu, P. et al. Intellectual property rights in the cultivated meat industry: opportunities and challenges. Nat Biotechnol 43, 1419–1423 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-025-02798-3

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